There Will Be Blood (2007) Parents Guide: Is the movie OK for kids?

Bontent's parent guide suggests There Will Be Blood is best for ages 16+. It's rated R. Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, an oil prospector whose ambition consumes everything around him across three decades. A film of enormous scale and controlled fury. The R rating reflects two sequences of…

There Will Be Blood is officially rated R. Bontent's independent parent guide recommends it for ages 16+.

Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, an oil prospector whose ambition consumes everything around him across three decades. A film of enormous scale and controlled fury. The R rating reflects two sequences of significant violence and strong language, but the film's real impact is in its portrait of unchecked…

There is a complete absence of sexual content or nudity throughout the film. The narrative remains strictly focused on industry, greed, and the interpersonal conflicts between the characters. The mature rating is derived from language and violence rather than…

A worker is killed in an early drilling accident. An oil derrick explosion and fire. In the final scene, Plainview beats a man to death with a bowling pin — prolonged and brutal. The violence is sparse but extreme when it occurs.

Strong language, not constant. The film's power comes from what characters say, not how they swear.

Plainview's alcoholism deepens as his wealth grows — by the final act he is drinking heavily and has isolated himself completely. Shown as the end point of a spiritual collapse.

Capitalism, religion, and the American dream as competing and equally corrupt ideologies. A man who begins as merely ambitious and ends as something close to a monster. The relationship between power and loneliness. The film's last line — 'I'm finished' …

There Will Be Blood runs 158 minutes, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, released in 2007.

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